Juvenil / Deportes y Recreación / Baseball y softball

Supercharged Infield

de Matt Christopher & Julie Downing

Penny Farrell, captain and third baseman of the Hawks softball team, tries to uncover the reason for the strange behavior of two teammates who have also suddenly turned into super athletes.

Playing for Pride: Down by a Run, the Team Needs to Play Its Best... Can Laurie Come Through for Her Team?

de Timothy Tocher

A New Sport with New Rules—Can Laurie Come Through for Her Team?

With the girls’ softball season about to start, fifth-grader Laurie Bird Preston can’t decide what to do. Her friends are trying out for...

Ballpark Mysteries #1: The Fenway Foul-up

de David A. Kelly & Mark Meyers

Now leading off the line-up—book #1 in a brand-new early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark!

Thanks to Kate's mom, a sports reporter, cousins Mike Walsh and...

Pinch Hit

de Tim Green

Trevor and Sam look alike. But their lives couldn't be more different.

Trevor is a movie star, living the Hollywood life in a huge mansion with his own limo, pool, and bowling alley. There's nothing he doesn't...

Shoeless Joe & Me

de Dan Gutman

When Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and the gambling scandal that destroyed the star player's career -- he knows what he has to do. If he travels back in time with a 1919 baseball card in his...

Stealing Home

de Matt Christopher

Joey is sure he will not get along with the exchange student from Nicaragua who is staying with his family for a year, but they find common ground on the baseball field.

Best of the Best

de Tim Green

Josh is still flying high from his team's tournament win at Coopers­town when his parents start talking about a divorce. Now his dad is challenging him to play the best of the best at the Little League World...

The Super Sluggers: Wing Ding

de Melissa Marr & Kevin Markey

"I'd heard stories about the yips actually taking over a player's arm. Making it twitch like a dog with fleas. But I'd always thought they were urban legends."

After winning the pennant last year, the Rounders...

Ballpark Mysteries #2: The Pinstripe Ghost

de David A. Kelly & Mark Meyers

Batting second—book #2 in a brand-new early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark!

Mike and Kate are waiting for Kate's mom at a boring press conference in Yankee...

Southpaw: Winning Season

de Rich Wallace

Jimmy Fleming throws left, bats right and left, and is hoping to become Hudson City’s newest pitcher. But while he makes the team, things don’t go just the way he’d hoped. His teammates aren’t too welcoming,...

Free Baseball

de Sue Corbett

Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba-and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won't reveal anything else. When a baseball team with Cuban players comes...

Wild Pitch #1

de Michael/Zalme, Ron Teitelbaum

In this action-packed baseball story, the Backyard Bombers, a pick-up team, go up against their biggest rivals?the Sluggin? Tigers. There?s just one problem?Joey, the Bombers? first baseman, thinks he has to...

Rivals

de Tim Green

Cooperstown! Josh is thrilled when all his hard training pays off in a big way and his team, the Titans, makes it to a national tournament in Cooperstown, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. More is...

Roberto & Me

de Dan Gutman

Sometimes you can change history . . . and sometimes history can change you.

When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he's got only one goal:...

A Topps League Story: Book Five: You're Out!

de Kurtis Scaletta & Ethen Beavers

Umpire Solomon Johnson is squeezing the strike zone and throws out both the Pine City Porcupines starting pitcher and manager “Grumps” Humphrey for arguing the call. Chad tries to make peace by giving Solomon...

A Topps League Story: Book Three: Zip It!

de Kurtis Scaletta & Eric Wight

These fun, illustrated early chapter books feature the adventures—and misadventures—of the Pine City Porcupines, a hapless baseball farm team, and their two batboys: Chad, an avid baseball fan with a huge...

Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me

de Nan Marino

"Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for...

Top of the Order

de John Coy

Jackson’s parents are divorced and his mother has started dating. Gig’s dad is in the National Guard and has been called up to serve in the Middle East. Isaac's dad wants him to go to a different middle...

Six Innings

de James Preller

Two teams, six innings, one game. A lively cast of characters—baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen—are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits,...

Ballpark Mysteries #4: The Astro Outlaw

de David A. Kelly & Mark Meyers

Now batting clean-up—book #4 in a new early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark!

Houston, we have a problem! Before a game at the Astros' ballpark, Mike and...